front-end processor

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front-end processor - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  front-end processor
  
     (FEP) 1. A small computer necessary to enable an IBM
     mainframe using SNA to communicate beyond the limits of
     the dinosaur pen.
  
     2. A small computer controlling the screen and keyboard of a
     Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine.